Showing posts with label something to think about. Show all posts
Showing posts with label something to think about. Show all posts
Saturday, December 10, 2011

Eric Hoffer: Something to think about

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No. 4 It seems that we are most busy when we do not do the one thing we ought to do; most greedy when we cannot have the one thing we really...
Friday, October 14, 2011

Something to think about

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Since philosophy has been able to find no path to tranquillity which is open to all, let every man seek it for himself . Michel de Montaigne...
Sunday, September 11, 2011

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109 "There are men of evil mind, who would make of everything a crime, and not because of passion, but just naturally. They condemn ev...
Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Something to think about:

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1.3 Like students of art who walk around a great statue, seeing parts and aspects of it from each position, but never the whole work, we ...
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Thursday, August 11, 2011

Something to think about:

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The mass of people believe their judgements to be their own. They get very offended when it is suggested that they have actually received ...
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Thursday, July 28, 2011

Something to think about

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3 That we pursue something passionately does not always mean that we really want it or have a special aptitude for it. Often, the thing we ...
Thursday, May 12, 2011

Something to think about

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No. 3 The source of man's creativeness is in his deficiencies; he compensates himself for what he lacks. He became Homo faber--a maker...
Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Something to think about

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No. 77 Know how to be all things to all men. A wise Proteus, he who is learned with the learned, and with the pious, pious: it is the great...
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Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Something to think about

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No. 2 A poignant dissatisfaction, whatever be its cause, is at bottom a dissatisfaction with ourselves. It is surprising how much hardship ...
Friday, January 21, 2011

Something to think about

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Friedrich Nietzsche Original Error of the philosopher. All philosophers share this common error: they proceed from contemporary man and thi...
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Monday, January 10, 2011

Something to think about

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[Humanity] seems to be divided into idealists and realists, and idealism and realism are the two great forces molding human progress. The ...
Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Something to think about

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The native vision, the gift of seeing truly, with wonder and delight into the natural world, is informed by a certain attitude of reverence ...
Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Something to think about

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No. 10 Fortune and Fame: the one as fleeting as the other is lasting. The first for this life, the second for the next: the one against en...
Friday, November 19, 2010

Something to think about

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For all we know, the wholly harmonious individual might be without the impulse to push on, and without the compulsion to strive for perfecti...
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Sunday, November 14, 2010

Something to think about

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Responsibility "One of the great lessons of Zen is to take total responsibility for your own life. Unfortunately, many of us have been...
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Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Something to think about

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No. 8 "A man without passion, the pledge of great loftiness of spirit which by its very superiority redeems a man from the yoke of vagr...
Thursday, September 30, 2010

Something to think about

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VI.10 People who make moral compromises in order to achieve good ends find that their compromises irrevocably alter the ends achieved. Thus...
Sunday, September 5, 2010

Something to think about

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From India: Do not give your attention to what others do or fail to do, give it to what you do or fail to do . -- The Dhammapada -- Eknath ...
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Sunday, August 22, 2010

Something to think about

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from The Importance of Living I have always assumed that the end of living is the true enjoyment of it. It is so simply because it is s...
Thursday, August 5, 2010

Something to think about.

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Something to think about: Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty. Where there are too many soldiers, there is no peace. W...
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